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Things we need; a Mil-SF novel that is a thinly disguised re-telling of the War of the Triple Alliance, from the Paraguayan side. A proud nation, led by nincompoops, declares war on three larger neighbours simultaneously: hilarity ensues.
Would work as a metaphor for Brexit …

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Category: Free Fiction

As GUFF laureate one of my tasks is to present European fandom and European genre authors in Australia and New Zealand.
Another one is to fundraise for the fund that sent me to Australia.
I’ve put the two together here, with the generous help of numerous authors who have given me permission to distribute some of their stories for free through my blog for a limited time.
If you like what you read, please donate to the GUFF fund.

Occasionally, I get asked to speak on TV. A couple months ago it was about the awesome Russian SF film Kin dza dza! which was aired on Croatian TV, today it was about the fictional worlds of Milena Benini, one of the best and most versatile Croatian SF writers. As I was trying to squeeze […]

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In case you somehow managed to miss out on the Worldcon & Eurocon 2014 issue of Parsek, the Croatian SF fanzine, you can download it here (.pdf)! Parsek is the fanzine of the Zagreb based science fiction society SFera and one of the oldest fanzines in the region. It’s been coming out in various forms […]

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As you may have noticed, I am a sucker for free fiction online. There was a time, when Irena Rašeta and me were doing NOSF.net a lot more zealously and when it was not that easy to find legal free fiction online. Sometimes, doing the Thursday Reader, was a real nightmare. Now, it’s an altogether […]

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When you dive into another person’s fiction so deeply that you feel their characters as if they are of your own making, or, if not that, then at least as if you can move them outside boundaries that media like television imposes on them, then you’re a bit like a mad woman, a crazy old […]